KJs
63.27%
Wins 62.94%, ties 0.68%
97s
36.73%
Wins 36.38%, ties 0.68%
KJs against 97s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 62.936 | 0.676 | 36.388 | 63.274 |
| 97s | 36.388 | 0.676 | 62.936 | 36.726 |
This is a contest between two suited hands, KJs and 97s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. 0.68% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
Ranked by equity against a random hand, KJs is number 20 of the 169 starting hands and 97s is number 94.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 17,242,000 | 185,000 | 9,969,000 |
| 97s | 9,969,000 | 185,000 | 17,242,000 |
The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 1.723 | 1.589 | 2.748 | 0.580 |
| 97s | 0.580 | 2.748 | 1.589 | 1.723 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
KJs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 69.78%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 39.71%. 97s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.630 | 0.297 | 30.073 | 69.778 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 39.425 | 0.575 | 60.000 | 39.712 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.478 | 0.324 | 37.198 | 62.640 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.631 | 3.456 | 37.913 | 60.359 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.570 | 1.362 | 34.068 | 65.251 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KJs from 62.57% by +0.70 points and 97s from 49.12% by -12.39 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs, all flops | 63.274 | 62.567 | +0.707 | 1.01130 |
| KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.778 | 62.567 | +7.211 | 1.11525 |
| KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.712 | 62.567 | -22.855 | 0.63471 |
| KJs, two-tone | 62.640 | 62.567 | +0.073 | 1.00117 |
| KJs, monotone | 60.359 | 62.567 | -2.208 | 0.96471 |
| KJs, paired | 65.251 | 62.567 | +2.684 | 1.04290 |
| 97s, all flops | 36.726 | 49.118 | -12.392 | 0.74771 |
| 97s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.222 | 49.118 | -18.896 | 0.61529 |
| 97s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.288 | 49.118 | +11.170 | 1.22741 |
| 97s, two-tone | 37.360 | 49.118 | -11.758 | 0.76062 |
| 97s, monotone | 39.641 | 49.118 | -9.477 | 0.80706 |
| 97s, paired | 34.749 | 49.118 | -14.369 | 0.70746 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 65.65% for KJs with a shared suit and 62.48% without one. KJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.17 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | 97s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.268 | 0.762 | 33.970 | 65.649 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.159 | 0.647 | 37.194 | 62.482 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJs takes back $126.54 of it, which is $26.54 more than it put in, and 97s takes back $73.46, $26.54 less than it put in.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 629 for KJs, 364 for 97s and 7 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: 97s against KJs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 97s holds 36.73% and KJs holds 63.27%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
KsJs against 9h7h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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